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Pent-up Africa is uncaged this week at Loew's Orpheum when Cab and the boys set their audiences rocking to the tortured strains of Minnie the Moacher and Zazz Zoo Zazz. Any ardent devotee will be completely satisfied by the Calloway contortions and incoherent mouthings, while favorable attention will be directed toward Ada Ward and her condition of Without That Certain Thing...
Preceding Cab on the stage show are Stuart and Ward, who would constitute the main attraction on any ordinary program. The humor of their drunken acrobatics is overshadowed by appearance of the Cotton Club's best...
...than a dozen bayonet and shot wounds and accidental injuries from bursting gas bombs and arrested the leaders of the mob and suspicious characters (including Columnist Heywood Broun). A howling mob of 250 seized Stephen Kardos, a workman who failed to join the strike, dragged him from a taxi cab, beat him, stripped him naked except for necktie, shoes and socks and marched him through the shopping district. A lone middle-aged policeman won Kardos' release with: "Boys, wouldn't your sister or your mother be shocked by such a spectacle?" After two ugly days for Toledo...
...importance can arrive in Sofia, small Bulgarian capital, without everyone from the cab drivers at the station to the perfume dealers in their offices knowing it within half an hour. Before the smoke of the Belgrade express had cleared from the station rafters last week everyone knew that Boske Jeftitch was in town...
...this had nothing to do with Cab Calloway. It meant that the 33-year-old movement, to build a great Arab nation under a single ruler, had reached a crisis. Huge, gaunt Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, was about to capture Yemen, last important independent territory on the Peninsula. The Imam of Yemen was reported dead and Ibn Saud's men already in the streets of the seaport of Hodeida. Belching clouds of black smoke, British and Italian cruisers and destroyers raced to Yemen "to protect nationals...